ScottJayhawk
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Jan 7, 2004
Here is my experience as a DVC member with the virtual queue (line) on 6/5/19 booking DVC Moonlight Magic for either July 18, Aug 8 or August 22, 2019.
I clicked the link in the email reminder I had gotten the night before a few minutes before 9am ET and saw a countdown of about 3 minutes. With about 30 seconds left the message below the countdown timer said the virtual waiting room was now open - yet I still had a countdown. Don't know if that's normal if I somehow got left at the end of the line with my countdown somehow being off - who knows.....30 seconds later the countdown changed to read 4,748 people in front of me in line....ugh!!
It started dropping fast however, I didn't do exact math but about 50-70 people every minute, a little more than 25% lower at 9:15am so I was on pace to book about an hour in. At 9:17am the message in the queue said something like with 70% of registrations still available your in great shape, stay patient to book your fun. At 9:30am I was more than halfway through the "line" - now perhaps slightly ahead of an hour before it was my turn.
At 9:33am the message updated to With 50% of registrations available you're in great shape. Since my line was down to about 1,500 after starting over 4,700 I'm feeling pretty good at this point.
Now of course this means nothing as you read this but I'm literally typing this as it's happening.
At this moment it's 9:37am and I'm down to 1,189 in line. Fingers remained crossed.
I'm targeting the August 8th event - and with less than 60 days to our Aug 1 departure it's that or nothing for us.
I've gone to 1,001 people in front of me as of 9:39am
Huge drop in the next minute, just 869 now ahead of me - like I said I haven't been keeping track minute by minute but that's a big drop in a 1 minute update. For example (and perhaps not coincidentally the next update only dropped to 849, then 811 quickly, then 779 - seems to be updating much more quickly, every 15 seconds as it gets lower it seems.
Only 499 left in front of me as of 9:43:30 am
Was hoping for another - don't worry plenty of spots available message to make me feel better as time ticked away.
Dropped under 200 at 9:46:27am
Finally at 9:48am ET the message changed to I would redirected to the website as soon as possible. But that message stayed on for what seemed like forever. But less than 60 seconds laster I was in registration!!!
Had to enter my member ID number, had it copied, ready paste. Enter email, acknowledge some stuff. Next page, enter number of attendees for the date (only offered me the data it knew I had a hotel reservation for) acknowledge some more stuff, click and DONE! Wrote down conf # quickly, note the page refreshed after about 60 seconds so if you want to take a screen shot of the full confirmation page do it quickly. But I did get an email with all the same info a moment later.
On this occasion at least starting 4,749 in line for Animal Kingdom Moonlight Magic and I got 4 spots.
So that was my experience, please share yours - where did you start in line? Did you get tickets?
I clicked the link in the email reminder I had gotten the night before a few minutes before 9am ET and saw a countdown of about 3 minutes. With about 30 seconds left the message below the countdown timer said the virtual waiting room was now open - yet I still had a countdown. Don't know if that's normal if I somehow got left at the end of the line with my countdown somehow being off - who knows.....30 seconds later the countdown changed to read 4,748 people in front of me in line....ugh!!
It started dropping fast however, I didn't do exact math but about 50-70 people every minute, a little more than 25% lower at 9:15am so I was on pace to book about an hour in. At 9:17am the message in the queue said something like with 70% of registrations still available your in great shape, stay patient to book your fun. At 9:30am I was more than halfway through the "line" - now perhaps slightly ahead of an hour before it was my turn.
At 9:33am the message updated to With 50% of registrations available you're in great shape. Since my line was down to about 1,500 after starting over 4,700 I'm feeling pretty good at this point.
Now of course this means nothing as you read this but I'm literally typing this as it's happening.
At this moment it's 9:37am and I'm down to 1,189 in line. Fingers remained crossed.
I'm targeting the August 8th event - and with less than 60 days to our Aug 1 departure it's that or nothing for us.
I've gone to 1,001 people in front of me as of 9:39am
Huge drop in the next minute, just 869 now ahead of me - like I said I haven't been keeping track minute by minute but that's a big drop in a 1 minute update. For example (and perhaps not coincidentally the next update only dropped to 849, then 811 quickly, then 779 - seems to be updating much more quickly, every 15 seconds as it gets lower it seems.
Only 499 left in front of me as of 9:43:30 am
Was hoping for another - don't worry plenty of spots available message to make me feel better as time ticked away.
Dropped under 200 at 9:46:27am
Finally at 9:48am ET the message changed to I would redirected to the website as soon as possible. But that message stayed on for what seemed like forever. But less than 60 seconds laster I was in registration!!!
Had to enter my member ID number, had it copied, ready paste. Enter email, acknowledge some stuff. Next page, enter number of attendees for the date (only offered me the data it knew I had a hotel reservation for) acknowledge some more stuff, click and DONE! Wrote down conf # quickly, note the page refreshed after about 60 seconds so if you want to take a screen shot of the full confirmation page do it quickly. But I did get an email with all the same info a moment later.
On this occasion at least starting 4,749 in line for Animal Kingdom Moonlight Magic and I got 4 spots.
So that was my experience, please share yours - where did you start in line? Did you get tickets?
